Yarigatake (槍ヶ岳) like a theme park! (30th challenge to 100 mountains)

Sep. 20th to 22nd, 2015
As 30th challenge to 100 mountains, we went to Yarigatake!
The route was from Kami-kohchi to Shin-hodaka hot spring via Yarigatake.
We left home before 2 a.m., arrived at Sawatari-area around 5:30 a.m.
Then accessed to Kami-kohchi by a taxi.











===Impressive things! ===
- Excellent view of Asusagawa-river and Hodaka-dake
- Breakfast set at Michikusa-shokudo restaurant of Tokusawa-en hotel. Costed 1,300 yen and very delicious
- Large field for camping at Tokusawa-en hotel. Seemed very comfortable.
- Great Yarigatake under the clear blue sky
- The path to the top of Yarigatake was very congested. We took 3 hours to reach the top of the Yarigatake. The distance was only around 100 meters. It's like a theme park.


- Camping for two nights in a row. Camping site at Baba-daira is riverbed of a small river. Public toilet was very clean. The tent site of Yarigatake-sansou had already been full at the time of the morning. It's located at 3,000 meters high, separated for each tent, so very pleasant to stay. It's for only 30 tents, so you have to pay attention to the capacity.
- Beautiful starry sky without clouds
- Satisfied with the supper and the breakfast at Yarigatake-sanso.

Mt. Tyausu with various colors! (29th challenge to 100 mountains)

We went to Mt.Chausu as 29th challenge of one hundred mountains in Japan.
We also went Asahi-dake and Sanbon-yari-dake in addition to Nasu-dake because mountaineering only one mountain was not satisfiable to us.

In the beginning, we accessed Touge-no-tyaya by car. The parking lot was already full, but a woman of the facility advised to park our car behind the tyaya at a cost of just 1,000 yen. The badges of mountaineering of Tyausu-dake was sold in this tyaya. We started mountaineering from the tyaya.

We could come across the beautiful view soon after the start point. We could see next check point, Mine-no-tyaya, so we were reassured. There were a lot of flowers of gentian. Those brilliant blue-coulored flowers were very beautiful!


We took a short rest at Mine-no-tyaya, and then headed to Asahi-dake. We climbed up on rough mountain path to Asahi-dake, and reached the top! The silhouette of Asahi-dake was very rough.
We headed next mountain, San-bon-yari-dake. In the middle part of the path to San-bon-yari-dake, there is a flat field called Shimizu-daira. There was damp ground and well-maintained wooden pedestrian road for hikers. The sunlight from the sky was shining on the ground, we felt fantastic atmosphere. After climbing through the bush of small pine trees, we reached the top of San-bon-yari-dake! We took lunch there, and finally we started the last mountain, Chausu-dake.

The fog were gradually getting up, so we felt uneasy about the weather. The mountain road to Tya-usu-dake was very rough. I though this was because Mt-Tyausu was still active. The shape of Mt.Tyausu was like a upside-down bowl. That colored red and brown or yellow, white... anyway, we could enjoy various colors of the mountain. The road was also very rough, and felt uneasy to climb up. Hot gases were discharged from the craters and could hear the violent sound.

We were climbing up as listening violent sound from craters, and finally we reached the edge of the crater of the almost top of the mountain. It was about 100 meters in diameter, and we walked around the edge, and reached the top!

WE COMPLETED TODAY'S MISSION!
However, we couldn't see anything except for thick fog. What a pity.


Anyway, we could enjoy mountaineering of three mountains in Nasu, feeling various atmosphere. We were very satisfied with this mountaineering!